PICE 2007 Mid-Year in Davao

I presented a paper entitled "Historical review of wind speed maps in the Philippines for various purposes: toward further development and use as wind hazard maps under the PICE-DMAPS program" (co-authors: B.M. Pacheco, N.E. Rosaria, L.E.O. Garciano). The idea was to present to a Philippine (civil engineering) audience a similar paper that I was to present at the later 4th CECAR (Civil Engineering Conference in the Asian Region) in Taiwan 10 days after to an Asia-Pacific audience (East Asia, Australia, USA).

ASEP 2007 International Convention in Manila

A paper entitled "Consideration of dynamic wind effects in the structural design and evaluation of truss-type structures typically damaged during recent typhoons" was presented at the 12th ASEP International Convention (12AIC) held in Manila, Philippines on March 15 and 16, 2007. Following are the details:

ASEP Forum on Billboards

We had an extended abstract and presentation at this forum.

Graduate Thesis: Consideration of Dynamic Wind Effects in the Design and Evaluation of Trussed Towers According to the NSCP-01

Finally, my M.S. Thesis has been fully accepted.  The full text can be viewed/downloaded from this link: http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B-NxRIz9HeFOZDM1OTBiMTAtY2IzMy00NGE2LTlmZDMtMzFiOGEzZWYzY2Uw&hl=en_GB

Codes from other countries use the term "lattice towers" instead of "trussed towers." Transmission towers and antenna towers are examples of trussed towers.

Highlights of the thesis include:

0. The main hypothesis of the study is that dynamic wind effects could not be neglected for trussed towers; for example typical trussed towers in the Philippines have aspect ratios around 7, and meanwhile the NSCP-01 requires that dynamic wind effects should be considered for structures with aspect ratios greater than 4.

PICE 2006 National in Iloilo

I submitted and presented a paper entitled "Dynamic wind loading of trussed towers: proposed new supplementary material to the NSCP-01" at the PICE National Convention in Iloilo on November 16 to 18, 2006, based on the main findings of my thesis (see above post).

APEC-WW in New Delhi, India 2006

The Philippines once again sent a delegate to the 3rd APEC-WW held in New Delhi, India on Nov. 2-3, 2006. Some details of the country report are as follows:

Current Research Interests

My research for my M.S. Civil Engineering, Major in Structural Engineering thesis is on quick structural evaluation of free-standing broadcast towers in the Philippines, in consideration of resonant wind effects and change in basic wind speeds.

I also have interest in dynamic response and mitigation, typhoon and earthquake engineering, full-scale measurements, structural investigation, structural design optimization, and computational methods (CFD, FEM).

Typhoon Engineering: We Need it More in the Philippines

If you don't believe that we need more typhoon engineers in the Philippines, check out the papers/presentations I presented at the previous conferences/conventions/workshops I attended, for more information about the very serious but very avoidable effects of typhoons in the Philippines, the number one most typhoon-prone country in the world. Bet you didn't know that, did you?

1st National Meteorological-Hydrological Convention

I again presented a paper, this time in front of mostly meteorologists and other scientists from PAGASA, although there were quite a number of people from other fields (e.g. engineers like myself).

APEC-WW in Hong Kong

I was sent by my superiors as the Philippines' delegate to the 2nd APEC-WW = the Workshop for harmonization of Wind loading codes and Wind environmental specifications in Asia Pacific Economies = hosted by the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, first week of December. For more details, visit HKUST's APEC-WW website, or the COE-TPU (Japan) website which co-hosted this 2nd APEC-WW, and hosted the 1st one.

PICE 2005 National in Manila

This time, the show's in Manila. I presented a paper entitled "DMAPS Looking Forward: Calling for 'Typhoon Engineers'." The paper is a modified version of the COE-TPU report I submitted earlier this year at TPU in Japan. DMAPS is a committee of PICE; it stands for Disaster Mitigation and Preparedness Strategies. Visit the PICE website for details.